Written Quotes
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Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
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My book is written, as befits such easy material, in merciless telegram style ("Axiom," "Definition," "Theorem," "Proof," occasionally "Preliminary Remark")... I hope I have written this book in such a way that a normal student can read it in two days. And then (since he already knows the formal rules from school) he may forget its contents.
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Luckily the script of X-files episode was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.
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I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.
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The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
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Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.
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When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
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History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
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Keep your friends close, Sun-Tzu had written. Your enemies closer.
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Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.
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I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
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Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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History is not what happened but what is written down
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I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
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I've got a Kanji symbol on my shoulder; it's for my son and means 'strength and power.' I have my son and daughter's names, Dominik and Aalyah, written on the inside of the left and right biceps, too.
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My tale doesn't end there, for the end has yet to be written.
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I wouldn't say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world as a whole and the vibe of the movie, rather than a sequence of scenes written on the page.
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When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.
